It has been a while since I have worked on my outboards so I must be getting rusty. Today I took an old 59 Johnson out of my shed and went to work. I got everything working wonderfully but it keeps heating up! I have checked everything I can think of but hopfully one of you can tell me what I...
Good morning all. I have a QD with a top cylinder dead. The strange thing is it has spark and will fire when I hold the boot about 1/4 inch away from the plug. I have tried over and under setting the points, new plugs. Things I plan on checking are compression and rebuilding the stator in case...
I just resurrected an 83 Evinrude 9.9. It starts first pull and idles beautifully. As I run it in my test barrel and give it some juice it will suddenly die and loose spark. Is this a coil problem or is there an other possible answer to this dilemma?
Thanks for your assistance.
Hello all! For some reason I am not able to get spart on the top cylinder of this motor. I replaced the coils/condensors/points/wires on this motor and for some reason am still not able to get spark on the top cylinder. I will be going over all the connections again this week to see if some wire...
